Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Chinese Investment in Tanzania's Plastic Recycling Industry

The China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies published in April 2019 a study titled "Wealth from Waste? Chinese Investments and Technology Transfer in the Tanzanian Plastic Recycling Industry" by Ying Xia.

The author concluded that environmental policy change in China may stimulate more investments in the plastic recycling and manufacturing industries in Tanzania, which would contribute to fostering greater linkages between the local industry and the global plastic recycling value chain. On the other hand, there are concerns that such an investment, without effective environmental enforcement by host country governments, would generate environmental and health hazards for the local community.